Zach Smith

Zach Smith has been teaching since the age of fifteen. He began this career with the Rob Roy pipeband from Kingston, Ontario. Three years later he led the drum corps to the World Pipeband Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. The same year Zach won a gold medal for solo highland drumming (grade 2) at the North American Championships at Maxville, Ontario.

In 1991, Zach began his studies at Acadia University where he received both a Bachelor of Music (percussion) and a Bachelor of Music Education degree. During his time at Acadia, Zach was a percussion clinician at over twenty different schools in the Annapolis Valley and Halifax area.

Upon graduation, Zach accepted a job with the Canadian Conservatory in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he taught drum kit, bodhran, and hand drumming. When he left in 2003, Zach had amassed a full schedule of just over 70 students per week. Zach now teaches drum kit at Music Junction in Fall River, Nova Scotia (an affiliate of the Fall River School of Performing Arts).

Zach has had the opportunity to play with many great groups/musicians over the years including: Richard Wood, The Gordon Stobbe Trio, Donna Andy, The Rob Roy Pipeband, Room 226, Toast, Good Question, The Band of the Ceremonial Guard (Ottawa), Ceilidh's Homet and, of course, Lochaber.

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